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Scope: Article 1. Middle East Technical University student dorms are administered, condurcted and checked in accordance with the provisions of this procedure. Purpose: Article 2. The aim of this procedure is to define the ways and the elements to the students of Middle East Technical University for enabling them to take a clean and peaceful shelter in Middle East Technical University dorms . Administration Bodies: Article 3. The Dorms Executive Board, is consists of seven members as four academicians elected by University Administrative Board in between university staff, a dorm head elected in between dorm heads, the head of Health, Culture, and Sports and the Head of dormitories. The Dean votes a chief between four academicians and a assistant chief into committee. The Committee meets in case of chief’s order or request coming from members if absolute majority is provided. If the chief does not attend the meeting, the assistant chief performs the mission. Dorms Executive Board, takes decisions about dorms administration, development and organization. The Executive Board determines general regulations and principels, examines and carry a resolution to the objections and advices coming to board, and performs the other principles in this regulation. The committee is elected for only one year. That period is prolonged as occasion may require. Article 4. The Dorms Directorate enables the dorms to be ran in a coordinated system. It solves the problems which are related with the dorms and forwarded by the heads and other administratives of the dorms or it transmits them to the Dorm Administrative Board. It also executes the secreteriat of the Dorms Administrative Council and applies the decisions of the Administrative Board.In addition, it does the other duties which are defined in this procedure. Article 5. The heads and the administratives of the dorms work for that the dorms are ran in order and peace . Moreover, it takes the necessary precautions to implement the the purpose which is defined in the second principle.In case of necessary,they inform their advices to the Dorms Directorate.They do the duties which are related with the general administration and the procedure. Article 6. The students who want to enter the dormitories should be METU students. Additionally they should apply to the director of dormitories within the time determined by the execute board of the dormitories and approved by the Dean’s Office. Article 7. Applications are put into line in the list according to their points determined by the execute board of the dormitories and approved by the Dean’s Office. Those students who will be accepted to the dormitories according to their points have to app y for registration to the director of dormitories and within the determined time and with the required documents. Article 8. The execute board of the dormitories searches whether the information stated in the documents match with the information reached after the investigation. Those students who are supposed to have given false information are not accepted to the dormitories. Article 9. The students whose families reside in Ankara and the foreign students cannot benefit from the dormitories during the time when other students wait to be placed into the dorms. The students who have been under the governments protection and come from the society for the protection of children and the ones who have proved that they have physical illness in %45 percentage will be directly accepted to the dormitories . Article 10. Staying period in dorms, mostly 6 years for students attending to Department of Basic English, and 5 years for others. Relations of students who can not finish his/her education in this period is cut off with dormitories. Staying period of students who accepted dorms in intermediate classes, is additional one year to their normal 4 year education period. Students who are accepted into dorms enclosure to article 9, are allowed stay until the end of their education. It is accepted as the student used the accomodating right for one year regardless of registration/admission date at the end of education year. The period of accomodating, before department change, is counted for a student who changed his/her department. Students who are registered to dorms are supposed to renew their dorm registrations in 10 days at he beginning of each semester, otherwise their relations are cut off. Article 11. Dorm Administrative Board determines the methods, which is performed during admission, and number of foreigner students and offers these to Dean’s approval. Article 12. In which conditions dorm students can stay in summer and semester holiday period, is determined by the board. The accomodating conditions for students who are not registered to dorms and students who are attending to festivals, sports activites, seminars and trainings in summer time depens on Dean’s permission. Article 13. Undergraduate and graduate students who are completed their education, or students cut off the relation for any reason are supposed to leave dorms in one week. Graduate students who want to stay in dorms apply again. Article 14. Students who are on leave, students who get periodical report more than 30 days for a semester, and students who are not able to continue to classes are not allowed to stay in dorms in those periods. The students whose relations are cut off while staying in dorms because of having vacation and report, are accepted to dorms at the end of vacation or report period without considering the point order. Discipline Processes and Applications: Article 15. The discipline penalties, acts and conditions that require these penalties are listed below for students accommodating in dorms in case behaving in an improper way. A.Warning a. Accepting visitors outside of determined places and times,, b. Making noise in a way that disturbs others, c. Placing his/her bed and belongings untidy in a way that bothers others and walking in the administration floor in bed clothes, d. Not paying attention to the order, cleanliness and protection of fixture materials in a dormitory, e. Hanging notices in places that are outside of the places determined by the director of dormitory, f. Coming late to dormitories. B. Reproach a. Staying outside of the dormitory without permission at night, b. Playing or to cause playing any kind of gamble in dormitory, c. Making commercial selling, d. Behaving or giving information in order to mislead the dorm administration, e. Not obeying the rules determined and announced by Executive Board of Dormitories. C. Temporary Exclusions a. Behaving to his/her friends and others, who stay in dorms, depreciatively, abusing, browbeating, aggressing or beating, b. Providing accommodation to students, except who are registered to dorms, or individuals in dormitories, c. Taking out the dorm material, damaging the material or hardware belonging to dormitories, (the damage cost is made to pay additionally). d. To use or keep heating devices in rooms to warm up, cook or make tea, e. Bringing alcoholic drinks or coming drunk to dorms, or drinking in dormitory, f. Bringing forbidden publishing to dorms, g. Not responding to invitations made by dorm executers, staying away from taking the call papers, h. Organizing and joining to any kind of meeting without getting permission from authority in dorms, i. To get temporary remove penalty from the university. (They are not accepted to stay in dorms in that time period.) D. Definite Removal from Dorms a. Making robbery in dormitories, b. Keeping, having or using guns, explosives, weapons, injuring materials which are defined as crime by laws, c. Organizing and joining to any kind of activity, without getting permission and in such a manner against to laws, to the directors or administrators of university or dorms, to protest any decision of administration, and provoking students on this topic, d. Misusing the building and facilities of dormitory and interfering the dorms services, e. Revolting, contravening, reviling, attacking and firing to the officers of government, who are responsible for security, in dorms cause of any reason, f. Saying marches, carrying posters and publications or acting is similar ways to harm the feeling of national unity and entirety, g. Assisting and joining the activities, which are helpful to illegal organizations, in dorms, h. Painting or hanging signs to any part of a dormitory, i. Keeping or using drugs in dorms, j. Being sentenced to definite prison penalty or getting removal from university for three or more months. Article 16. In defining the penalty fee, the case in which the same punishment should be given or an encouragement occurs to commit a crime is accepted as one of the aggravating circumstances. The penalty of the student is turned into the upper punishment when he/she commits the same crime. The students who force or encourage others to commit a crime are also given the punishment. Article 17. The warning and disapproval punishments are defined by the head and the administrators of the dorm, the deduction punishments are defined by two dorm heads, which are decided by the Dorm Administrative Board, by the commission of the Dorms Administrative Committee the decisions about deduction are become definite by the approval of the Dorm Administrative Board. Each punishment, the student is given, is registered in his/her penalty card. The punishments other than the warning ones are declared to the student, to his/her family and to the Rectorate. The registration of the student, who is decided to be renounced, is cancelled. In such a case, the student should renew his/her dorm registration in the following week of the process. The student, who does not renew his/her registration, should queue up again by making an application. Article 18. There is no necessity to make the announcement of the registration cancellation to the family of the student to implement the decision which is the renouncement from the dorm. But the decision whether to give a term to the student or not is taken by Dorms Administrative Board. Article 19. During the seven days just after the declaration of the discipline punishment to the student, he/she can make an objection to the superior authority. The objection does not stop the implementation process .The objection for the decision of the subcommittee is made to the Dorms Administrative Board. The objection for the decision of the Dorms Administrative Board is made to the President’s Office. Article 20. If the action of the student is against to the Turkish Council of Higher Education Regulation, the crime report is notified to the related discipline authority. Article 21. For the cases of absence of consideration, the decisions of Turkish Council of Higher Education Student Discipline Regulation are applied. Article 22. The amount of the dorm fee and the deposit, the period and the format of payment is defined by Dorms Administrative Board and is become valid by the approval of the President’s Office. Article 23. The student should pay the dorm fee for the cases of permission, report or that his/her room is kept, although his/her dorm registration is cancelled. Article 24. ** The students who are registered in dorms should also pay the dorm fee during semester holiday. In summer, on the other hand, this fee should be paid by the students and the guests who will stay in dorms. The amount of the fee is decided by the Dormitory Administrative Board. Article 25. The student who leaves the dorm without confirming or do not come back during the registration renovation process has to pay the dorm fee for the time, passing till the day that his/her registration is cancelled. Article26. The procedure of the fee, to be paid by the student who is registered in dorm or the procedure of the fee, to the paid back to the student who cancels his/her registration in dorm is carried out by making documentation by the head of the dorm and Dormitory Administrative Board according to the days counted. Article 27. The student who didn’t pay the dorm fee or who has a debt because of the harm he/she gave already can not get the deposit fee, can not renovate his/her registration in dorm and can not get the documentation about conciliations. Article28. The student who gave harm to the dorm should pay the fine according to the cost of that day he/she pays. Article29. The student who stays in dorm is responsible for all materials and goods which are received by the Dormitory Administrative Board or used by him/her. Article 30. The university does not carry the responsibility of the money or any materials which are not received by the Dormitory Administrative Board. Article 31. The goods and materials of the student who stays in dorm may be controlled by the Head or the Dormitory Administrative Board, if necessary. The case is recorded via the official report. The good which is brought to the dorm, taken from the dorm or delivered to the custody depository may be controlled by the officers in charge. Article 32. In the state of the emergency, the university president may close the dorms directly or by the advice of the Dormitory Administrative Board. Article33. The Dormitory Administrative Board may renounce of the student with the dorm or forbid him/her to stay in dorm by showing a justified reason. Article 34. The decision whether the students, who have committed a crime, are accepted to the dorms or not is taken into consideration by the Dorms Administrative Board and is submitted for Rectorate’s approval. Article 35. METU Dorms Regulation (numbered with 19457) which is published in the official gazette on 11.05.1987 and the changes which were made after this regulation are fell into abeyance. Temporary Principle 1. The tenth Article of this regulation, determining the period the student stays in dorm, is not applied for the students who registered in the university before 1987-1988 school terms and still stays in dorms. Article 36. *This regulation comes into the effect since the official gazette’s publication date. Article 37. This regulation is held by Middle East Technical University Rector. |